BitPay’s new open source project Bitcore helps Bitcoin app developers

“At BitPay, we believe that developers contemplating new Bitcoin projects should not have to resort to using proprietary APIs hosted on services running closed software”. And that is exactly why the famous Bitcoin payment processor now decided to publicly launch its open source project Bitcore.

BitPay announced the news recently via a blog post. According to the company, all developers can now access this tool, which will facilitate the creation of software “that interfaces directly with the real Bitcoin network”. In other words, Bitcore is an open source JavaScript library that allows the users to do pretty much anything they can imagine with the Bitcoin protocol.

The payment processor states that the project was designed “to run server side on node.js or client side in a web browser and intersect with a trusted Bitcoin node (i.e. a bitcoind instance)”.

However, unlike what many people might think, Bitcore is anything but new. BitPay has been using it internally for the past year and the project was actually used to build successful apps such the block chain explorer Insight.

Like several other companies and projects, BitPay created an internal fork of Stefan Thomas’ bitcoinjs project. We’ve decided to open source that fork and put some effort into ensuring that it had sufficient capability out of the box to attract developers to start using it.

In the meantime, several other Bitcore projects are already underway. This package includes tools that can help the developers manage key storage, multi-signature workflows, as well as a JavaScript roller for browsers, among other new features.

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Maria is an experienced journalist currently living in the UK. She has been writing about Bitcoin and the altcoin universe since 2013. She is also a member of the Lifeboat Foundation's New Money Systems Board and a big cryptocurrency supporter.